According to the Gemtext specification, any line that starts with "```" is a preformatting toggle. This makes it impossible to have such a line as part of a preformatted block. I understand the design goals of Gemtext, but I believe the Markdown solution to the same problem can be lifted straight into Gemtext relatively easily: allow more than 3 backticks to open a preformatted block, and require the same number to close it as the number that opened it. This way, any possible text can be included in a preformatted block. Thoughts? The same issue exists with text lines (it's impossible to display "=>" or "#" at the beginning of a line of text), but I'm not concerned about that because having to prefix such lines with a space is not a big deal for plain text, whereas it is for code.
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